Rock Band Network's June "T-Mobile Artist-of-the-Month" Announced

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Say hello to my little Band of Skulls.

By IGN Staff

CAMBRIDGE, MA and NEW YORK, NY - Harmonix Music Systems and MTV Games, a part of Viacom's MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), along with T-Mobile USA, Inc., the official mobile partner of the Rock Band Network, today announced that English blues rockers Band of Skulls are the Rock Band Network's June "T-Mobile Artist-of-the-Month".

"Band of Skulls' music grabs your attention," said Cheryl Gehbauer, Senior Director of Music for MTV Games. "Driving guitars mixed with edgy duets and harmonies make this bluesy, indie rock band a standout for the June T-Mobile Artist-of-the-Month."

As the June "T-Mobile Artist-of-the-Month," Band of Skulls will be featured for one month in promotions throughout the Rock Band Network Music Store and on the official game website, http://www.RockBand.com, including the new RBN content hub at http://t-mobile.rockband.com, which is fast becoming a rich source of information about Rock Band Network, including Inside RBN, a source for consumers to discover new music, and Creators Club, a source for artist/authors/labels to find out more about the RBN authoring process.

The three Southampton, UK members of Band of Skulls, Russell Marsden (guitar & vocals), Emma Richardson (bass & vocals) & Matt Hayward (drums), met in school and quickly established themselves in the music and art community with a series of culturally inspired club nights in Southampton, London and, later, Moscow and Tokyo. The band recorded, mixed and mastered their debut album, Baby Darling Doll Face Honey, in a quick January through March 2009. The album was released in April 2010 and features the single, "I Know What I Am," which is also available for download in the Rock Band Network Music Store.

For more information about Band of Skulls and the T-Mobile Artist-of-the-Month Program, head to http://t-mobile.rockband.com.

About the Rock Band Network The Rock Band Network, launched March 4, 2010, gives Rock Band fans and music lovers a new avenue to discover music and provides musicians and labels the opportunity to produce and promote tracks for the Rock Band platform. This ground-breaking initiative gives musicians, publishers and record labels the ability to author their original recordings into gameplay files to promote and sell their music as playable Rock Band tracks through the RBN Store.

Artists who submit songs for the Rock Band Network Music Store are able to choose from multiple pricing tiers for individual tracks and receive a royalty of 30 percent of the retail selling price (excluding tax) for every track purchased through the RBN Store. There are currently more than 300 songs available for purchase in the RBN Store from artists including Third Eye Blind, Seether, Drowning Pool, Five Finger Death Punch, Flight of the Conchords, Attack Attack!, Flogging Molly, Clutch, The Shins, The Hold Steady, The Main Drag, Bang Camaro, of Montreal, Jonathan Coulton, Band of Skulls, Apples in Stereo, Band of Horses and many more. There are more than 300 artists in the RBN pipeline, with additional tracks already on the way.

With more than 1,500 tracks available to date in the Rock Band platform, the Rock Band Network Music Store has helped boost the number of available songs, further securing MTV Games and Harmonix's position as the leading provider of downloadable content for music-based video games.

For more information and official "T-Mobile Artist-of-the-Month" contest rules, please visit www.rockband.com/t-mobile

Artists interested in submitting their songs to Rock Band Network, please go to www.creators.rockband.com for more instructions on how to get involved.

About MTV Games MTV Games is dedicated to creating, marketing and publishing high-quality, innovative interactive products that are relevant to the MTV audience and complement the core values of the MTV Networks brands.

About Harmonix Music Systems, Inc Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., based in Cambridge, MA, and established in 1995, is the leading developer of groundbreaking music-oriented videogames. Harmonix was founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, who formed the company to invent new ways for non-musicians to experience the unique joy that comes from making music and have pioneered music and rhythm gaming in the US. For more information please visit www.harmonixmusic.com.

About T-Mobile T-Mobile USA strives to help customers enrich their personal relationships and stay connected through wireless communications with their friends and family. The value of its plans, the breadth of its coverage, the reliability of its network, and the quality of its customer service are meant to do one thing: help people stick together ® with those most important in their lives. For more information about T-Mobile, visit http://www.t-mobile.com.